decarbonisation

The UK has now gone a fortnight without coal, underpinning what has been a landmark month for the country’s energy mix.

The government has formally approved renewables’ participation in future Capacity Market auctions, and unsubsidised projects could compete as early as next year.

A host of the country’s largest energy firms have backed the UK’s bid to host next year’s COP climate conference and called on the government for further support.

SSE’s thermal generation fleet lost more than £22 million in the company’s last financial year, leading the utility to laud its networks and renewables business units.

Today marks exactly one year since we launched Current±, a publication we very much intended to both demystify and accelerate the clean energy transition. Liam Stoker reflects on the year just gone, and teases plans for next 12 months.

Magnus Hall, chief executive at Vattenfall, has been appointed as the new president of European power trade body Eurelectric.

The UK could meet its looming fourth and fifth carbon budgets without the need for new nuclear, but only if renewables policy is urgently ramped up, Cornwall Insight has claimed.

Property consultancy Knight Frank has handed utility Total Gas and Power a renewable power contract worth more than £75 million.